16 Results for : envying
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The Locals: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times - fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by. After being swindled by a financial advisor, what future can Mark promise his wife, Karen, and their young daughter, Haley? He finds himself envying the wealthy weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter. Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. But in the nervous days after 9/11, he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home into a year-round "secure location" from which he can manage billions of dollars of other people's money. The collision of these two men's very different worlds - rural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthy - is the engine of Jonathan Dee's powerful new novel. Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. Over Karen's objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. Then the town's first selectman dies suddenly and Hadi volunteers for office. He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his image - with unexpected results for Mark and his extended family. Here are the dramas of 21st-century America - rising inequality, working class decline, a new authoritarianism - played out in the classic setting of some of our greatest novels: the small town. The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern, Ray Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005230/bk_rand_005230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour. In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces for Harper's magazine in the '90s were, according to Lipsky, like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming. Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader's escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an orgy of spectation). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace's dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things: everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him, in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him that grateful, awake feeling the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church. A biography in five days, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain, Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002251/bk_rand_002251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline for Success in Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline. Brian Tracy knows this firsthand. He didn’t graduate from high school, and after working for a few years as a laborer, he realized he had limited skills and a limited future. But through the power of self-discipline, he changed his life, achieving success in sales and marketing, investing, real-estate development, and management consulting. He has consulted to more than 1,000 companies, given motivational speeches and seminars to more than four million people in 40 countries, and written 45 books. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life: Your personal goals: self-discipline can help you realize that you are responsible for your success and shows you how persistence really does pay off. Your business and money goals: self-discipline can make you a better leader and a better manager, help you close more sales and make more money, improve your time-management and problem- solving abilities, and make you more effective and successful at work. Your overall happiness: self-discipline can help you be happier, healthier, and more physically fit, and it can help you in your marriage and your relationships with your children and friends. Each of the 21 chapters in this audiobook shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end- of-chapter exercises to help you apply the “no excuses” approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do—instead of wistfully envying others who you think are just “luckier” than you. A little self-discipline goes a long way...so stop making excuses and listen to this audiobook! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Tracy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000394/bk_gdan_000394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Be a Strong Woman: Stop Self-Sabotage: Find Your Inner Voice and Begin to Experience Mindfully the Life You Deserve , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
No one is like you. You are a rare gem in a sea of rare gems, and we all get to sparkle and shine like the queens that we are. When I was a girl, I had no idea what it meant to be a strong woman or even a strong girl, because I wasn't getting that message from my family and my teachers. I grew up with low self-esteem issues and a whole lot of insecurity left over from childhood.When I graduated from grad school, I started my research on self-esteem and wanted to author a book about it, hoping to empower young women to get out of their old ideas about who they think they are and be who they know they are.In my own journey with trying to become a strong woman, I went on many misadventures, made a lot of mistakes, and found all of the reasons I was spending my life making comparisons to other women and their perfect lives and envying what they had because I didn’t seem to.I blocked myself from who I truly am through my low self-esteem and disempowering behaviors that I had learned from the culture I grew up in and from my early life programming. I didn’t want to live that way anymore, and as I studied psychology and became a writer, I knew I had to use my own voice to make an impact and to show the women of this world that we all deserve to have the power that we want and to create the lives we feel we deserve.Be a Strong Woman was my op-ed about what we do as a culture to disempower ourselves and disempower each other when we should be helping each other become stronger women. This book is a guide to help you identify where you are weak when you want to be strong and the main reasons women feel that they cannot be their true selves. The audiobook includes some of the following topics for you to empower your true self and your voice:The difference between good and bad self-esteem and how to rebuild it when it is lowThe issues of control and how to let go of it to make room for bigger and better possibili ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alaura Howery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187792/bk_acx0_187792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love Me in Paris (The Self-Vow, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
"Romantic and hot without being graphic. This book is funny, witty, serious, charming, thought provoking, and a delightful read." Trevor My friends back in New York City think I'm crazy-quitting my prosperous law firm and taking a year off to roam the bars of Paris. After what happened, how could I have stayed? I'm shaken, numb, and the last thing I need is human connection. In between mindless hookups, I just want to be alone. Or so I thought. Until I met Sophia Paige. She's beautiful, kind, innocent, and her joyfulness draws me like a moth to a flame. Getting her into my bed has become an obsession. There's just one problem: Sophia has sworn off men. She's even taken a self-vow of celibacy, and due to a small misunderstanding, she now believes I did, too. Clearly, I'm getting nowhere with her and should move on. But instead, I'm lying awake at night, envying her delight when she tasted my fresh-baked croissant -and dreaming of coaxing the same moan from her lips. This girl with the bright blue eyes could be my salvation, but only if I can first save her from her vow. Sophia I came to Paris searching for my past. I'm recreating the steps my parents followed in their final days, guided by a handful of faded letters and my childhood journals. I'm a small-town girl, and I feel way out of my depth, but the biggest threat I've encountered so far in the City of Lights is him. Trevor Lawson-suave, handsome, and achingly enticing-is dangerous in a different way. Nothing good can come from falling for a man who lives an ocean away from me. Yet, for the first time in ages, I'm irresistibly attracted to someone and tempted to abandon my year-long vow of celibacy. And I can't. My vow was a promise of love-not only to myself but also to my best friend. No matter how fascinating Trevor is, no matter how close we get as he helps me in my mission, I can't break my vow. I'd rather die. But after this trip, that might be exactly what happens to my old self. Love me in Paris is the first stand-alone book in the sexy, funny and poignant Self-Vow Series. If you like compelling characters and heartwarming, emotional stories with both laugh-out-loud and tear-jerking moments, you will love the Self-Vow Series. Start enjoying this riveting novel today. Buy Love me in Paris now! About this series: Follow me to the most beautiful European destinations, to a time before country lockdowns. There, we'll join the adventures of four friends from college, Sophia, Chloe, Mia, and Iris, who reunite after a decade apart and launch a project to reinvent themselves. Against the backdrop of some of the most gorgeous places on Earth, we'll remember that nothing is more enticing than the forbidden, but we'll also discover that finding love is about more than physical attraction: it's about choosing a travel companion through life. Book1: Love me in Paris: A Travel Romance. Book 2: Kiss me in Italy: A Travel Medical Romance Book 3: Meet me in Greece: A Friends to Lovers Travel Romance Book 4: Find me in Andalucia. (Coming Soon)- Shop: buecher
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Cinderella and Her Sisters - The Envied and the Envying
Cinderella and Her Sisters - The Envied and the Envying: ab 8.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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